As reported on CNN.com, a transgender rights group has filed a discrimination complaint in Colorado on behalf of a first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl.
Continue reading...The Penobscot County Superior Court has ruled that Riverside RSU 26, formerly Orono School District, did not violate a transgender student’s rights under the Maine Human Rights Act when school officials prohibited the student from using the girls’ restroom at school. It also rejected the student’s claims of discrimination under the MHRA based on deliberated indifference to student-on-student harassment or harassment by school officials.
Continue reading...According to the Bangor Daily News, Penobscot County Superior Court Justice William Anderson has heard oral arguments in a discrimination suit brought by the parents of a transgender student over the local school district’s handling of their transgender child’s transition from male to female.
Continue reading...Your News Now reports that Ithaca City School District (ICSD) plans to appeal the the Appellate Division Third Department of the New York State Court System’s award of $250,000 to a student whose mother brought a peer racial harassment suit against ICSD. In the suit, Amelia Kearney alleged that her daughter was viciously harassed and even attacked by other students at DeWitt Middle School because of her race.
Continue reading...According to Courthouse News Service, Kymberly Wimberly, a 2011 graduate of McGehee Secondary School, has filed suit in federal court against McGehee School District (MSD), alleging MSD engaged in racial discrimination when it named a white student co-valedictorian even though that student had a lower G.P.A. than Wimberly, who is African-American. The suit charges that despite Wimberly having the highest G.P.A. of the Class of 2011, “school administrators and personnel treated two other white students as heir[s] apparent to the valedictorian and salutatorian spots.”
Continue reading...The Penobscot County Superior Court has ruled that a school district superintendent was not obligated under the Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA) to accommodate a transgender student specifically by allowing access and use of the girls’ bathroom at school.
Continue reading...According to an Associated Press (AP) report in Education Week, New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) has issued a Finding of Probable Cause against the Franklin Township Board of Education (FTBOE), concluding it failed to take appropriate steps to end years of race-based bullying against a student. NJDCR found that the board failed to take sufficient action to stop the harassment and bullying of an African-American female student that went on for nearly four years.
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